• Categorization

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    Origin

    From categorize + -ation.

    Full definition of categorization

    Noun

    categorization

    (plural categorizations)
    1. A group of things arranged by category; a classification.
    2. The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
      • 2013, James Gleick, "Wikipedia's Women Problem", New York Review of Books, 29 Apr 2013:It’s fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.

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